It will start Monday, March 5th-- although no clock on picks until Tuesday morning at 9am Eastern. Loose clock for first day or so.

Those who participated in the past and who have shared with me their contact info and/or proven their responsibility in sending lists and so on will get a week to put in their dibs on a team they've had before. On Feb 12th, we'll open it up to anyone who wants an available team, first come first served with the commissioner (that's me) reserving the right to move some GMs around or settle disputed territory.

B2B (devotion), FC (podcast & founder of Board Draft), SP (podcast & mod), Stosh (score game), Ice (leader of outdraft the steelers 2016), smithessmokin (leader of outdraft Steelers 2017), Fractal (unofficial hockey forum mod), Drama (keeper of the mock draft flame), get first dibs in that order, then the regulars on the Draft Forum and last year's drafters... then we open it up.

The draft will go all 7 rounds, including expected comp picks, and there will be a 2 hour time limit. Trades of players under contract or 2017 picks (including comp picks for the first time) will be allowed, although they should be approved by me, SP, or anyone else who wants the hassle of trying to help run this draft. The main incentive of going quickly is that we can do a second draft before the real draft day.

The last three years we have set records, with 2016's 13 days, 10 hours, 16 minutes being an all-time record until 2017's start at Tue Mar 07, 2017 1:12 pm and finish at Mon Mar 20, 2017 1:07 pm... 12 days, 23 hours, and 55 minutes.

Caveat: I'm not sure I have enough time and energy to put as much time in prompting people and updating the thread, but then again I said the same thing last year and the year before that.

This is my favorite thing we do here, and I hope we can keep the tradition going for some time.

What's a bummer is that I don't have time anymore. Between work and recently going back to school to finish up my education I can't participate. Be sure to look in on the annual board GM mock draft though.